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TYPE OF OCCUPANCY

John Geiger applied 72 categories of purpose to 1,125 Frank Lloyd Wright commissions. Classifications include 18 types of housing, 17 forms of civic buildings including churches, 29 terms for commercial structures, and 7 kinds of site planning, with other categories for decorative accessories, farm buildings, and site improvements. The categories of "Automobile" and "Patent" have been added to include in the results several types of projects not categorized by Geiger.

Type of Occupancy Category COMMERCIAL/Hotel/Motel

San Marcos Hotel Remodeling, for Dr. Alexander Chandler, project [Chandler, Arizona] (1936)

Note: The following information concerning this project represents original research and analysis by John Geiger, and is based in his long and detailed study of the Frank Lloyd Wright literature as well as personal contacts with members of the Taliesin Fellowship and architectural historians. In addition, he added his own categories of building type and compositional form, as well as other points of consideration that he deemed important to understanding of the design.

Name of client: Chandler, Dr. Alexander.

Sobriquet or alternative place name: None.

Design Status (as of 2011): Unbuilt.

Occupancy form or use: COMMERCIAL/Hotel/Motel.

Principal building materials: Not assigned.

Number of drawings for this project detailed in the database: 10.

Drawing Number and Description

3607.001     Aerial perspective
3607.002     Perspective
3607.003     Elevation and cross section
3607.004     First floor plan
3607.006     Mezzanine and roof plan
3607.007     Aerial perspective
3607.008     Interior persspective of dining room
3607.009     Perspective of dining pavilion
3607.010     Interior perspeective of two story suite
3607.030     Aerial perpsective

Individuals recorded as contributing to project:

Note: Not everyone who contributed to a project may be named; only those whose participation has been confirmed from a source appear above. Occasionally names presented as contributors to a project may seem chronologically anomalous. This usually occurs when an individual prepared drawings for publicity, exhibition, or publication long after the original date of a commission.

Howe, John

Notes And References

Comments by John Geiger and/or sources of attribution None recorded.